Christopher Nolan is a master of beginning at the end. In his breakthrough film, 2000's Memento, he not only began at the end but continued moving backwards through time. In The Prestige, written by Christopher and his brother Jonathan and based on a novel by Christopher Priest, the end is the beginning, but the story doesn't run in anything so simple as a straight line.

Sorrow, according to the film Old Joy, is nothing but worn-out joy. It's a fitting description from a film about how opposites attract and repel each other, transforming themselves in the process. A subtle, graceful and haunting film, Old Joy is the story of two old friends who reunite for one weekend in the mountains east of Portland.Read more...

Imagine being given away by your parents before you reached your fifteenth birthday, to be raised by strangers in a country wholly foreign to you. Even if you lived in a royal chateau with every available luxury, would you ever feel at home? That is the conceit at the heart of Marie Antoinette, a lush, sympathetic and occasionally frustrating film about the life of the doomed queen.Read more...